Playing Fallout 76 on PC Could Make You Physically Sick

With each passing day as we get closer to Fallout 76 release, it is becoming evident this game shouldn’t exist. Clearly, Bethesda isn’t ready to handle a Fallout multiplayer game given their incompetence to sort out bugs without modders, poor online infrastructure, and tone-deaf behavior over fan-feedback. The latest example of the company’s ignorance is highlighted by the lack of a FOV Slider in Fallout 76 PC. The game is buggy and featureless as it is but not having a basic feature like FOV Slider is not only a sign of laziness but can, in fact, make you physically sick. If you play the game for too long with a low FOV on PC you can actually feel ill. PC gamers generally sit close to their monitors so playing Fallout 76 for longer periods of time with a low FOV can cause motion sickness. They didn’t add the FOV slider for two reasons: 1: It breaks animations because their engine is outdated and can’t work properly with a basic feature We haven’t supported FOV sliders in our previous games as it is known to break a lot of animations and causes a lot of clipping to occur onscreen. You do have the option to zoom out in the third person on PC by holding View and moving the mouse wheel, but we won’t be able to have it for the first-person view. Many users experience motion sickness while playing in the first-person mode. The solution to Fallout 76 induced motion… [Read full story]